The Bee’s Triumphant Return!

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Congrats to the Humble Bees for winning the 2025 Community-Wide Spelling Bee!
 
The winning word was “Deliquesce.”
 
Thank you to all of our teams, volunteers, judges (including Héctor Carvajal of Don Carvajal Café) and guests.
 
A shoutout to Ed & Amy Chen, our able scorekeepers…and to their Buzz Riot Apiary for the honey won by our finalists.
 
And special thank-yous to our Main Street School spelling bee winners and enunciator Matt Rashid. With any luck, we can solidify even more incredible spellers for next year’s Bee.
 
We couldn’t have done it without our incredible advertisers, donors, and sponsors: Jon, Judy and Samuel Siegel, Kristy Schmitt and Irvington Printing, Greg Allen and the Irvington Theater, Chutney Masala, My Sherry &more, Debra Goodwin & The Goodwin Team, Ivkosic Painting, Squint Optometry, Club Car Grille, Random Farms Kids Theater, Tarrytown Honda, Houlihan Lawrence, Red Barn Bakery, Ludy Cafe, Seasons A Floral Design Studio, Geordanes Irvington, Savvy Sips Wine and Spirits, Shames JCC on the Hudson, Gate Hill Day Camp, The Morgan Library & Museum, and Aesthetics By KM.
 
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Money raised by the Friends of the Irvington Library is the main source of funding for children’s, teen, and adult programming, including story hours, book groups, lectures, movies, live theater, poetry readings, and art classes. The Friends also purchase the library’s free museum passes, DVDs and audio books. Check out all of the library’s upcoming programming here!

To be a friend of your library, you may use the Donate button below or mail your donation to Friends of the Irvington Library, 12 S. Astor Street, Irvington, NY 10533.

Individual: $30
Family: $50
Supporting: $100
Patron: $250
Benefactor: $500+


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Book Donation Guidelines

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The Library and the Friends Appreciate Book Donations!

Only books meeting the requirements of the Library’s acquisitions policy can be added to its holdings, but donations not wanted for the collection are sold by the Friends, and the proceeds go directly to the library! Items we are not able to sell are donated to other non-profit organizations or discarded.

You may bring your donations of one or two cartons or shopping bags (no plastic garbage bags, please!) to the front desk of the library any time the library is open! Books must never be left outside the library, in the vestibule, or in the book drop.

If you wish to donate more than two cartons of books, you must first contact the Friends of the Library so we can arrange for someone to receive them.

BEFORE packing up your books and bringing them to the library, please read the following guidelines carefully. If you have any questions, send an email to the Friends at friends.booksale@gmail.com  Please do not phone the library — thanks!

We welcome all the following:

  • Hardcover fiction and nonfiction
  • Trade paperback fiction and nonfiction, not the smaller, mass-market paperback fiction
  • Reference books and textbooks, only if recently published
  • Specialized periodicals and academic journals, but no popular magazines
  • Children’s books
  • Foreign language books
  • Blank books, journals, diaries, notebooks, notecards, postcards and stationery

 Unfortunately, we are no longer able to accept:

  • Mass-market paperbacks (i.e. “pocketbook” format: 4.25 x 6.87 inches) unless like new
  • DVDs, CDs, audio books, or vinyl records unless new and unopened
  • Software or video games

Vintage books are wonderful but please… be thoughtful and DO NOT bring us: 

  • Water damaged, mildewed, or heavily soiled books
  • Books with missing covers or split spines
  • Out-of-date computer science books
  • Instruction manuals
  • Encyclopedias 

THANK YOU!